Preliminary Study On Mental Energy Of College Students: Questionnaire And Actuality

With the development of positive psychology,the study of human strength and virtue has become a new direction for the Development of Psychology. In this context, mental energy is attracting more and more attention and interest. Proposed the concept of mental energy have a certain history, but there is yet no consensus. Based on the domestic and foreign literature, expert interviews, and open -investigation, mental energy can be defined for a positive psychological force that comprehensive expression in human cognitive abilities, mood state, Motivation and behavior, and it is the capacity of the implementation of mental activity. In the research process, we found that there is no a special scale to measure psychological energy. So, Purpose of this study are try to construct a theoretical model of psychological energy and designed a good reliability and validity of psychological energy scale.Based on the literature review, the open-question survey and experts’advice, the author develop developed a model of college students’mental energy, and had collected some items which applied to college students. The Preliminary survey had 310 subjects. The exploratory factor analysis verified the dimensional structure of mental energy and tested the appropriateness of the questionnaire items. The second survey obtained 896 valid questionnaires of in a total of 1,100 Subjects, Through Confirmatory actor analysis, finally get a reasonable structure of mental energy, and develop,we had the final the questionnaire of Mental energyThe questionnaire included 22 items in four factors. The validity and reliability test in several dimensions, Characteristics Analysis and Correlation and regression analysis of between social support and mental energy were also implemented. They results are as follows:(1) Mental energy questionnaire of college students Includes cognitive, emotional energy, willpower and strength behavior of four dimensions. The scale contains a total of 22 items and questionnaire by 5-point type with self-assessment score. (2) The validity and reliability test show that the questionnaire has high internal consistency reliability, split-half reliability, content validity, construct validity, and criterion validity, which could be applied as the college students’mental energy questionnaires.(3) The total score of mental energy have no significant difference in Gender, grade, family economic status, but in the Professional, gender and family differences in growth environment have significant difference about Cognitive ability and determination.These differences needs further study and discussion.(4) Total social support and mental energy were moderate between the various dimensions of the significant positive correlation. The size of social support can predict the strength of psychological energy which subjective support can be best predictors of Strength of mental energy.